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TV Shows

C-SPAN American Writers II: Ayn Rand, 12 May 2002
Originally broadcast on C-SPAN, two hours. Featured work: The Fountainhead. Requires Real Player to view.

Reference

Ayn Rand (1905-1982), The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Ayn Rand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Ayn Rand (February 2, 1905 [O.S. January 20] – March 6, 1982), born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum ..., was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher best known for developing Objectivism and for writing the novels We the Living, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, and the novella Anthem. A broadly influential figure in post-WWII America, her work attracted both enthusiastic admiration and scathing denunciations. ..."

Images

TheAdvocates.org - Ayn Rand
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Born

2 Feb 1905, Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum, in St. Petersburg, Russia

Biography

A Brief Biography of Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand Institute
Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
Cato Institute, Three Women Who Launched a Movement
Full Context
Laissez Faire Books

Awards Received

1983 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, granted by Libertarian Futurist Society, Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
For Atlas Shrugged
1987 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, granted by Libertarian Futurist Society, Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
For Anthem

Related Films

The Fountainhead, Screenwriter

Web Sites

who was...Ayn Rand? ...a biography, 1905-1982

Web Pages

Ayn Rand - Libertarian
Advocates for Self-Government
Music With An Ayn Rand Connection
Related Topics: Music

Articles

Ayn Rand - Hero of the Day, The Daily Objectivist, 2000
Completing Rand's Literary Theory, by Stephen Cox, 2002
Happy Birthday Ayn Rand! February 2 Marks Birthday of Literary Atlas: Ayn Rand, by Chris Wolski, Capitalism Magazine, 2 Feb 2000
Objectivism and the State: An Open Letter to Ayn Rand, by Roy A. Childs, Jr., 1969
Related Topic: Limited Government
"The purpose of this letter is to convert you to free market anarchism. ... all of your arguments against free market anarchism are invalid; and hence, you are under the moral obligation, since it has been shown that government cannot exist without initiating force, to adopt it."
Russian-born novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand's inspiring moral defense of individualism and liberty, by Jim Powell
35 Heroes of Freedom: Celebrating the people who have made the world groovier and groovier since 1968, Reason, Dec 2003
Related Topics: Reason's 35 Heroes of Freedom, John Ashcroft, Jeff Bezos, Norman Borlaug, Stewart Brand, William S. Burroughs, Curt Flood, Larry Flynt, Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater, Václav Havel, Friedrich A. Hayek, Robert A. Heinlein, Jane Jacobs, Alfred E. Kahn, Brian Lamb, Rose Wilder Lane, Madonna, Nelson Mandela, Martina Navratilova, Willie Nelson, Richard M. Nixon, Les Paul, Ron Paul, Dennis Rodman, Louis Rossetto, Julian L. Simon, Thomas S. Szasz, Margaret Thatcher, Clarence Thomas, Ted Turner, Evan Williams, Philip R. Zimmermann
"... there's no denying that novels such as The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged introduced libertarian ideas to millions of readers in a vivid, compelling way, encouraging them to reject the cult of self-sacrifice, oppose the demands of collectivism, and question the rule of experts."
Ayn Rand and Objectivism - Epistemology, Full Context
Related Topics: Epistemology
Ayn Rand and Objectivism - Metaphysics, Full Context
Related Topics: Metaphysics
Dialectics and Liberty [PDF], by Chris Matthew Sciabarra, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Sep 2005
Related Topics: Dialectics, Aristotle, Personal Responsibility
"Like other great classical-liberal and libertarian theorists, Rand maintained that government intervention in the economy creates a civil war of all against all; advancing statism makes masters and slaves of every social group, with each vying for some special privilege at the expense of others."
Epistemology and Politics: Ayn Rand's Cultural Commentary, by David Kelley, Navigator, Dec 2004
Related Topics: Epistemology, Politics
"Because she brought a philosophical perspective to bear on the events of the day, and analyzed those events in terms of essentials, her comments have staying power. Indeed, it sometimes seems as if she were looking into the future and writing of things we see around us today."
Finding Atlas: Before Ayn Rand there was Isabel Paterson, by Stephen Cox, The American Conservative, 4 May 2009
Related Topics: Isabel Mary Paterson
Biographical account highlighting Paterson's influence on Ayn Rand
"Among the rising generation of conservative and libertarian intellectuals whom she influenced was a young escapee from Soviet Russia, Ayn Rand. At that time, Rand was an author without an audience. An avid reader of Paterson's weekly newspaper columns, she sought the older writer's acquaintance during the dark days following the election of 1940 ..."
Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson, and Ayn Rand: Three Women Who Inspired the Modern Libertarian Movement, by Jim Powell, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, May 1996
Related Topics: Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Mary Paterson

Interviews

An Interview with Ayn Rand, 1961
Video (second clip of five), available at C-SPAN, requires RealPlayer
Playboy Interview, 1964

Publications

The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
Twice yearly (Spring and Fall)

Books

Atheism, Ayn Rand, and Other Heresies
    by George H. Smith, Apr 1991
Related Topic: Atheism
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
    by Michael Paxton, 1998
Companion book to the Academy Award-nominated documentary
Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical
    by Chris Matthew Sciabarra, 1995
Ayn Rand
    by Tibor R. Machan, 1 Mar 2000
Ayn Rand, Homosexuality, and Human Liberation
    by Chris Matthew Sciabarra, 2003
Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand
    by Chris Matthew Sciabarra (Editor, Introduction), 1999
Journals of Ayn Rand
    by David Harriman (Editor), Leonard Peikoff (Foreword), 1997
Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand
    by Nathaniel Branden, 1989
Letters of Ayn Rand
    by Michael S. Berliner (Editor), Leonard Peikoff (Introduction), 1995
The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
    by Harry Binswanger (Editor), 1986
Related Topic: Objectivism
The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand: Truth and Toleration in Objectivism
    by David Kelley, 1990
The Influence of Ayn Rand
    by Barbara Branden
The Passion of Ayn Rand
    by Barbara Branden, 1986
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
    by Leonard Peikoff, 1991
Related Topics: Objectivism

Books Authored

Anthem, 1946
Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand, Edward Hermann (Reader - Audio CD/Cassette), 1957
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
    by Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen, 1946
Related Topic: Capitalism
Collection of essays by Ayn Rand and others on the moral aspects of capitalism
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, 1967
Related Topic: Epistemology
Philosophy: Who Needs It, 1982
Related Topic: Philosophy
Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, 1999
Expanded edition of The New Left, introduction and additional essays by Peter Schwartz
The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers, 2001
The Fountainhead, 1943
The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, 1971
The Objectivism Research CD ROM: The Works of Ayn Rand
    by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, 2001
Related Topic: Objectivism
Compendium includes Anthem, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, We The Living and many others.
The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature, 1969
Related Topic: Esthetics
The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
    by Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, 1964
Related Topic: Ethics
The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought, 1988
Related Topic: Objectivism
We The Living, 1936

Audio

Memoirs of Hayek in Chicago and Rothbard in New York, by Ralph Raico, 1 Aug 2005
Related Topics: Murray N. Rothbard, Circle Bastiat, Friedrich A. Hayek
Lecture given at Mises University 2005, Raico reminisces about Murray Rothbard, the forming of the Circle Bastiat, Ayn Rand, F.A. Hayek and many others in the 1950s and early 1960s

Videos

The Passion of Ayn Rand, 30 May 1999
Showtime Entertainment movie based on Barbara Branden's book.